Well, Dick has the correct explanation for the "PA", rather than me, but the
papers I have from my ancestors show that the first document, (the
Declaration) was the one which only showed their name and that they renounced
their King. I have this one from my g gf, filed in Wisc.in 1898, but he never
got around to filing the Naturalization, as his brothers did. The documents
I have from his brothers definitely show the earlier document (1888)
entitlled Declaration, and the Petition for Naturalizatioon dated 1917.